The Skolney Blog

....the Raiders never trade Khalil Mack to the Bears ...Daniel Carlson can hit a fucking field goal in Lambeau ...Everson Griffen doesn't have his breakdown the day before the Buffalo game ....Cousins doesn't get strip sacked on that final drive in LA ...Adam Thielen doesn't fumble that ball against the Saints ...that terrible roughing the passer call wasn't called on Houston in Philly last week ...the Rams put up ANY effort against the Eagles the week before that ...the Vikings defense can make a single 3rd down stop on that 9 minute drive yesterday

Bears 24 Vikings 10 This season was not much fun. It was not that much fun even before this season-ending, spirit-smashing thud of a defeat. Even the wins were often more exhausting than exhilarating. The fanbase began the season angry and stayed there. The media was no help, as they repeatedly treated wins like losses. When the offense was at its best, the defense struggled. When the defense hit its stride, the offense was often shockingly unproductive. Even today. Sure I got myself hyped up for the win and in. But I knew the win would mean another week of stressing about losing at our house of horrors, Soldier Field. And obviously then needing two more road wins to get to Atlanta. Even a win today could only have been enjoyed briefly. Instead the Vikings just saved us all a week and gave us the playoff performance in front of their home fans(plus an absurd number of bandwagon Bears fans...where ya been the last decade?). This was a tough one to take. To let a division rival, who...

I don't understand how, as far as their perception among most media and a lot of fans too, these Bears are considered an unquestionable juggernaut, while this Vikings team is looked at with just constant disdain. The gap between these two teams is really not that big. It's basically all their schedules if you look at them for more than 2 seconds. Last year gave us a 1st place schedule while the Bears got the last place schedule. This gave the Bears games against Tampa Bay and the Giants, while we had to play the Eagles and Saints. We both went 1-1 despite us having the much tougher pair of games. The rest of our schedules had the same teams, but even that has been far from equal. The Vikings had hard road games at LA(on a short week), New England and Seattle. The Bears got all 3 of those teams at home, and played Seattle early before they caught stride. We had to play San Francisco when they had Jimmy Garappolo. They got to face Nick Mullens. We had to play the Packers twice...

So, based on most of what I've seen and heard, the fans seem to like the Aquaman movie. Probably the 2nd best received of the whole DCEU behind Wonder Woman. I wish I saw that movie. The origin movie for the character who was previously the worst part of the Justice League movie, this movie is maybe the all time example of overkill. You hear some blockbusters be tabbed as "nonstop action" but they really aren't. This is. And not in a good way. In nearly 2 1/2 hours this thing can barely go 5 minutes without some kind of big action set piece. Many interrupt the few quieter scenes. There are at least 3 times when a dialogue scene between 2 characters is cut short by an out of nowhere explosion. It's too much. It's WAY too much. The story has a lot of standard stuff you've seen before. There's a lot of Black Panther here, a lot of Thor here. Nothing happens that will surprise anybody. The movie is not cast well. We're stuck with Jason Momoa, who i...

Vikings 27 Lions 9 A twisty, turny, at times maddening season will all come down to week 17 at home against the Bears. There are many ways this could have gone easier, but this is not an easy season. It probably always had to be this way. But first we had to get through Detroit, the team that has thrown a monkey wrench into many a recent season. And of course it wasn't easy at first. The whole 1st half was just weird. The Vikings couldn't even get started. We got pinned at our 2 to start and didn't really try to do anything but survive without a safety of big turnover. Then our 2nd drive died cause a ball went through Stefon's hands. The Lions moved the ball, but even as they were the Vikings defense was getting a lot of TFLs. And the Lions were only getting field goals despite controlling the game, which is usually a bad sign. And they only led 9-0 despite the refs doing everything possible to fuck us over. It was like playing at Lambeau. It was 9-0 but I wasn...

The Titans got it done in the end and knocked off the Redskins, one of the 3 results the Vikings need to clinch a playoff spot this weekend. So it's basically just us, Seattle and Philly now for 3 spots. Tomorrow will be a major scoreboard watching day. I would be absolutely stunned if the Vikings do not hold up their end of things. A loss to Detroit would be worse than the Buffalo loss by far given the circumstances.

Seriously, this fat fucker is spending some of his final days with control of all 3 branches of government in total scorched Earth mode. I guess he figures he can just try to blame Democrats for everything the second the new House is sworn in. Even blaming Dems for things he has already taken credit for, like shutting down the government over his bullshit border wall/overcompensation for his shriveled up cock. I'm pretty aghast, even after nearly 2 years of this catastrophe, at the audacity of this cocksucker and the endless worship from his inbred, should all be executed cult member supporters. This orange bag of puss spent his whole hate-fueled campaign riling up his white trash base with talk of this border wall that he was going to make Mexico pay for. Now, those of us who aren't in the cult understood full well that Mexico was never ever going to pay a penny for any wall. So to have this Russian puppet now screaming about shutting down the government(at Christmas, no less...

First off, screw you Rams and thank you Saints. Now then, the Panthers are now irrelevant as far as the Vikings are concerned. So it is us, Seattle, Philly and Washington for 4 spots. We are in with a win next week and losses by both the Eagles and Skins. All 3 could happen, although I kinda doubt we get that lucky. So we could be looking at the exact same scenario for week 17 that we had in 2012. That year we needed a week 17 win against the Packers to make the playoffs. And Green Bay needed a win to get a bye week. (Ironically the team we kept out of the playoffs with that win....the Bears) And of course that win meant an instant rematch with Green Bay, just like this could mean an instant rematch at Soldier Field. Hopefully we wouldn't have to start Trevor Siemian. The Rams will get their bye. Their last 2 games are cupcakes. But their loss to the Eagles almost guarantees the Bears will enter week 17 at least THINKING they can get a bye. So if we need that win in week 17 we...

Vikings 41 Dolphins 17 Now THAT'S how you supposed to play football! From now on, THAT'S how you play football! The 1st game of the Vikings 3 game mini-season, the 1st game post-DeFilippo, was not perfection, but it was almost unquestionably their most complete performance of the season. The 1st quarter was an absolute masterpiece. First drive, right down the field for a Kirk to Stefon TD. Second drive, right down the field for a Dalvin TD. Third drive, right down the field for a Tay Train TD. 21-0 after a quarter. Wow! The purple palace was alive! Quick passes, play action throws downfield, getting Kirk out of the pocket, blowing open HUGE running lanes...everything our former OC refused to let happen. It was like last year's Pat Shurmur offense, only with a better QB and a healthy Dalvin. This is what we wanted all season. Now, obviously 21 points a quarter is not sustainable, but in just this one quarter of football the bad vibes were swept away. Now, the bad vibes...

When the Vikings named John DeFilippo to replace Pat Shurmur after last season, it made all the sense in the world on paper. JDF was seen as a key figure, maybe THE key figure, for an offense that had just turned Nick Foles into a QB capable of flat out embarrassing Mike Zimmer and Bill Belichick defenses back to back on the biggest stages. It flopped. And it has a lot of recent friends in local sports history. The Twins, coming off a surprise 2017 playoff berth, made a series of what on paper were shrewd, low risk, high reward moves just before and during spring training. Hey, if you can get Logan Morrison, Lance Lynn and Jake Odorizzi all on the relative cheap, you do it. It appeared to be just  what we needed to push the team over the top. The moves flopped. The team flopped. The Timberwolves two offseasons ago are faced with a.rare golden opportunity to bring in a star player in Jimmy Butler. Yes, I disagreed with going all out to win now, but you were able to get him for h...

Stefanski made interim OC and play caller. I'm glad they had the guts to do it. Nationally this is bound to puzzle the morons who were STILL talking up JDF as one of the prime HC candidates. I'm sure they'll blame it on Cousins, as is their narrative. But those of us who actually watch this team know better. You can't have an offense with this much talent, even with a bad OL, play this bad this consistently. They might have still made the playoffs without the change, but now you have a better chance to get in, and maybe even have a prayer in January. And you get a mini audition for the guy who in retrospect probably should have just been given the job all along.

Seahawks 21 Vikings 7 *deep....deep sighs* Man, I really try with this team. I am not an optimistic person by nature, but I am when it comes to the Vikings. I look for silver linings even where there are none. I don't think I fall into pure homerism very often though. The math and the schedules still tell my head that this team should make the playoffs. My head tells me that this team has found itself in an usually large number of difficult spots schedule-wise. Now, they also haven't overcome any of them, but a lot has gone against them. But I love this Vikings team like a parent loves a child who is flunking out of school. You are better than this. You should be better than this. You WOULD be better than this if you just fucking LEARNED. But we have 3 weeks left in the season now, and it feels like if this team is learning anything from this season, they either can't or won't enact changes. I did the John Defilippo rant last week. I'm not interested in repeat...

Great finishes. Results you want. Those two things almost never occur simultaneously, and certainly not in bulk. But on the 14th Sunday of this NFL season they sure as hell did. Well, until the night game, but I can't be too greedy. My focus is fixed on the Vikings playoff chase. And from looking at schedules I thought this was probably the last week things could kind of go badly for us. The 3 teams sitting right behind us at 6-6 all had winnable games. And we have this tricky game at Seattle tomorrow. The odds the Vikings would finish the week out of the playoffs seemed pretty likely. But we got a whole afternoon of good fortune. The Redskins, who probably were doomed anyway with a 3rd string QB, were completely destroyed by the Giants. The free-falling Panthers lost at Cleveland. And now they get the Saints 2 of the last 3 weeks. And best of all, at the end of an infuriating game that Dallas seemed destined to blow, they came through in OT to beat the Eagles, probably our big...

Endgame I knew the Russos were lying about the title never having been said in an MCU flick. It sure is a teaser. We see a beaten, broken Tony drifting in space, cause apparently Nebula wouldn't just give him a ride home. He's recording a goodbye message to Pepper. I'm guessing a certain star of a previous MCU trailer we saw this week will be rescuing him before his oxygen runs out. Thanos is enjoying his retirement. Cap(whose beard is gone) and Black Widow(whose unflattering blonde bob isn't) are depressed. Cap is still looking at the Peggy lockett. Thor and Banner are depressed. Shuri is missing(although I'm pretty sure she didn't get snapped). Hawkeye is back, looking badass. But Cap has a plan, likely courtesy of Ant Man, who is out of the Quantum Realm and ready to get even.

I'm not saying the right wing corporate media(or the liberal media as the imbeciles call it) should have spent the last few days ripping to shreds the legacy of George H.W. Bush. Obviously the optics of that would have done more harm than good. And okay, he was the least awful Republican president of my lifetime, which is just about the lowest bar imaginable. But let's not pretend like his work as president was anything but garbage. Why do you think the subsequent Clinton years were so great? It was like an 8 year cleansing of the disastrous Reagan/Bush years. Then his demon spawn was given an election he didn't win, and led us to this disaster we are still very much in. And while the msm spends all their time lauding this guy, the GOP keeps undermining democracy at every turn. We see them going out of their way in Wisconsin to limit the powers of the incoming democratic governor. So that state won't even have a prayer now. Widespread election fraud uncovered in Nort...

The Vikings slip back ahead of the Redskins, who are finished. It's now 3 teams for that last spot(I'm just giving Seattle one wild card). That tie in effect gives us a 1 game lead, with 4 to go. The Eagles have to play at Dallas, at the Rams and home to Houston the next 3 weeks. The Panthers have 2 games against the Saints, plus at Cleveland and home to Atlanta, which are not total gimmies. So the Vikings remain in the driver's seat to make the playoffs. It's possible it may only take 2 more wins to get in, while 3 makes it nearly a lock. Still gotta gain a game on the Bears by week 17 to make that game matter. It's possible. Bears have the Rams next week, followed by the Packers(who knows what they'll have to offer), then a presumed cupcake at the Niners. If we win at Seattle the odds that week 17 is for the division are very strong. Prepare to be flexed.

We should know better. We should know it as well as any fanbase. Crunch the damn numbers: You have 32 franchises. 12 have never won a Super Bowl. 8 have won it just once, including the Chiefs and Jets, whose titles were 50 years ago. And even of the 12 that have multiple titles, 5 of those haven't won any since 1995. Miami hasn't won one since 1973. The Raiders haven't since 1983. The lucky 7 that have had both multiple titles, and won recently: Packers, Patriots, Steelers, Ravens, Giants, Broncos and Colts(and even they only have 1 in Indy). Yet our impossibly stupid and reactionary fanbase and media want to clean house less than a year since an NFC championship game appearance. I'm sorry you spoiled, fairweather fucks aren't getting the 19-0 Super Bowl winning juggernaut you have all decided you were promised. But you god damn assholes are raging at this team like they are the 2008 Detroit Lions, like they are a top to bottom disaster of an organization wi...

Hatriots 24 Vikings 10 I always believe that when teams are playing as big underdogs, particularly on the road, they need to play aggressively. You have to play like you have nothing to lose, even if you have lots to lose. If you don't, the odds are pretty damn good you will lose. I sure wish John Defilippo felt this way. The Vikings 5th ever matchup against Tom Brady was the 1st one that was within reach. This was a tie game until very late in the 3rd quarter. The tie was blown by the defense. The GAME was blown by our offensive coordinator, who should not be allowed to serve another game in that capacity. You have to go into a game like this, against this team in their home stadium where they are damn near invincible(they have more Super Bowl titles than home December losses in the Brady era), and assume that you have to score at LEAST in the upper 20s to have any reasonable chance to win. But our offense came out and for almost the entire 1st half played like the gameplan ...

The Vikings walking off the field victorious, having defeated the twin tandem of my NFL torment since 2001, Belichick and Brady. Never seen it happen. Now, due somewhat to the cyclical nature of the NFL, the Patriots have always caught the Vikings at low points. They've never had to face even a .500 Vikings team. 2002: A fairly competitive game considering the Vikings were very bad until the end of the season. Tbh I don't remember anything specific about this game. 2006: I was at this one. The Vikings were 4-2, in Chilly's 1st season. They had just won up at Seattle and were looking like a playoff contender. Then these fuckers came in here on a Monday night and completely destroyed us 31-7. We only scored on a punt return, and the season collapsed into a 6-10 bummer. 2010: Another bad Vikings season. Another bad game. This one is only remembered for two things: 1. Patriot fans cheering Brett Favre getting hurt, then taunting him as he was carried off on the cart, and 2...

Vikings 24 Packahs 17 Games don't get a whole lot more life or death in the regular season than this. The disparity in what the Vikings season would be depending on a win or a loss was gargantuan. A win and the path to the playoffs remains very clear(and a shot at the division is still at least there). A loss damn near kills the season, plus you breathe all sorts of new life into the Packahs. So this game, this win, is one of the most satisfying and relieving wins of recent years. They saved their season, all but killed the Packers, and nuked those annoying primetime game narratives. It sure looked bleak early. The offense came out sloppy and stupid. Our run game got gashed. Rhodes had a bad penalty. And the Packahs were in the endzone. It looked like Chicago all over again. But then the offense got hot. The next 2 drives were simply splendid. We got explosive passes downfield, including another one of those insane Thielen grabs. I couldn't believe we ran that amazing Dalv...

Gophers 37 Stinkin Badgers 15 The Gophers had not beaten Wisconsin since 2003. They had not won in Wisconsin since 1994(Jim Wacker!). So naturally the team to end those streaks was this collection that gave up 55 points to Illinois just 3 weeks ago. What a weird season. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this win was how the Gophers were never really NOT in control. They never trailed, and once they had that big sequence late in the 1st half where Wisconsin dropped a 3rd down pass, then punted, and we ran it back for a TD and 17-0 lead, it was never really scary again. Sure they let Wisconsin go right down the field in 50 seconds to cut it to 17-7, and I was sure that would be the beginning of the end, but the end never came. The defense clamped down in the 2nd half big time. Hard to believe this defense is the same bunch that got run over week after week earlier in the season. They have been solid to great the last 3 weeks, against better competition than some of the teams t...

Bears over Lions Well, I can't say I was surprised. Trubisky for Daniel isn't even much of a downgrade tbh. The game was very winnable for Detroit until Stafford became an interception machine. It puts the NFC North just that much further out of reach. Cowboys over Redskins Dallas now fully takes over as the east favorite. The Skins officially fall a half game behind the Vikings, which may or may not matter ultimately. Saints over Falcons Saints barely broke a sweat. The interesting Saints game arrive in December. Last 3 week they have a game against Pittsburgh sandwiched around 2 Panthers games. If they get to 15-1 they'll have earned it. And the Falcons can look ahead to the draft. With Atlanta and Detroit both more or less finished now, the wild card race is down to 6 teams for 2 spots. If the Vikings can get it done Sunday night that will all but knock out Green Bay 

Creed and Rocky 4 Two movies, same franchise, that couldn't be more different. One a very grounded, gritty boxing film. The other a gloriously over the top, cheesy to the max boxing film. Rocky 4 might be the most 80s movie ever. These 2 movies smash together for Creed 2, while more or less lifting the plot structure from Rocky 3, and damn if this isn't one of the best sequels in recent years. It's not quite as food as the 1st one. This one has some hammy dialogue of the "what are you fighting for" variety, and I actually wish there had been more stuff showing the life of the Dragos. They did dig up Bridgette Nielsen though, and wow have the years not been kind to her. Michael B Jordan remains a charisma machine. Stallone slips back into the Rocky role so smoothly once again that he's bound to be overlooked(I doubt he gets Oscar nominated again bc this time he doesn't have any of those BIG scenes). Tessa Thompson is glorious. The franchise will surely...

Who knew that every single bad thing that happens in this world is Kirk Cousins's fault. Wildfires? Kirk set em.   Mass shootings? Kirk sold the guns. Stubbed your foot? Yep, that was all Kirk too. Or you sure would think so given the absurd amount of bile and hatred being thrown his way yet again after the SNF debacle. I'm so fucking sick of this shit. Kirk Cousins is not infallable. He played poorly in Chicago, no doubt. You can debate how much of it was Kirk, and how much of it was the offensive line  But good god, so much of this fucking fanbase has gone nuclear against this guy. After 10 games, most of which have been good to great. I know that for years the Joe Mauer haters would simply throw out his contract as their sole argument on all things Joe, like mentioning $23 million or $184 million instantly won all debates and instantly would discredit all valid attempts to praise him. Well now it's assholes saying $28 million or $84 million in every Cousins discuss...

There's a reason that for years my least anticipated game on any Vikings schedule is at Chicago. Call it a hex, a curse, a fluke or whatever you want. These games have been torturous for damn near 2 decades now. And after a reddit convo I figured I'd do a deeper dive into this whole thing. The results...may shock you!⚡ So we start in 2001. Prior to this the Vikings actually did fairly well in Chicago. They actually had a 5 game win streak there from 1996-2000. One more reason to retroactively love Dennis Green's tenure more. But starting in 2001, in the 1st game after 9/11, oddly, all that changed. 18 seasons. The Vikings are 3-15 in Chicago(one game, also a loss, was at the University of Illinois). Now, in that time, the Bears only have 4 wins here in 17 tries themselves. I didn't check every single division rivalry, but I feel safe assuming this is the single most home friendly rivalry in the league. There are matchups like Buffalo at New England, or Detroit at Gr...

BEARS 25 VIKINGS 20 So they made the final score look respectable. La dee freakin da! They only lost by 5 points, but has there ever been a 1 score loss that felt less close than this? It was a complete domination. Trubisky gave us a couple picks. We got a fumble. But there was never a moment in that 2nd half where I felt even the slightest shred of hope. It was never a game. My god, even the Bears kicker suddenly couldn't miss. I suppose you can look at it that the defense did settle down in the 2nd half, and that at least the offense moved the ball a little. So maybe they at least can take some solace from that. This wasn't the Buffalo game. That's the best you can say about this. It wasn't the Buffalo game. Biggest game of the year, and the best you can say about it is that at least it wasn't one of the 2 or 3 worst losses suffered by any NFL team all year.

I'm not even waiting til this game ends. The Vikings, who after a rough September had rebuilt their season into something not only salvageable, but potentially special, apparently spent their bye week deciding that, nah, we want to be also rans in 2018. We don't really want to defend our division title from the upstart Bears. We would rather just let ourselves be relegated to a cluttered wild card race. I have no other real explanation for this complete and utter embarrassment that this Sunday Night game is. You have your biggest game of the season, with 2 weeks to prepare for it, and these jackasses look like they have never played the sport of football before. The defense, which even with those September struggles, came in one of the league's best, being made to look positively amateurish by Mitchell Fucking Trubisky. Okay he runs around. Is that something new? Have we never seen a scrambling QB before?  This fucking guy was allowed to run all over the damn field the w...

Can't say this was surprising. Last week a Gophers club that had been godawful for all of Big Ten play suddenly became a totally different team and destroyed Purdue. So with a good, ranked Northwestern team in next they at least renewed some interest, and hope of being a bowl team. Nnnnnnope As usual, when faced with a big game(relatively speaking), a Gopher football team peed down their collective legs and gagged in their last home game of the year. The defensive turnaround from last week sort of carried over. They at least did their best to keep the team in the game. They are not why they lost. That blame lands squarely on the offense, which had by far its worst performance of the year. They were in great starting field position basically the entire day. And they made virtually nothing of it. One touchdown until they got a 2nd against a prevent defense late. Northwestern tried over and over to let the Gophers win and they just refused. So only a win at Wisconsin gets them in...

I was pretty worried for a while, between the Hawks not playing well and the refs as usual letting the Packers OL hold whatever they wanted. But in the end the Packahs lose again. And now the Vikings are at least TWO games up in the loss column on the entire NFC field. They can stick the dagger into Green Bay next week, and now if we simply go 4-3 the rest of the way, the odds of making the playoffs in some capacity have to be astronomical.

With the Vikings resting this week, it was a full on Redzone Sunday. And it was actually a surprisingly dull day, with only 2 of 11 games not more or less decided by the 4th quarter. It was not a good day for the Vikings as far as the north race, although it wasn't expected to be. The Lions got thumped yet again by the Bears, while the Dolphins were simply pathetic in getting clobbered by the Packers. The Packahs in particular HAD to win, since their next 2 are at Seattle on a short week, and then at the purple palace. It was a decent day for the Vikings as far as the plan B of being a wild card. With the exception of the Packers, all the teams right behind them in the WC hunt(pending SNF) lost. Seattle hung with the Rams but their comeback fell short. And the Falcons, who had been red hot, completely laid an egg in Cleveland. And also, that game at New England in a few weeks may not be quite the impossible task anymore. The Pats got manhandled in Tennessee 34-10. These are not...

Butler to the Sixers, for a couple of players I don't know of but who the Wolves redditers seem to think are pretty solid. So it looks like they got SOMETHING. And this is major addition by subtraction anyway. The season may already be finished after that appalling west coast road trip, but for this franchise to have any future the diva had to go. Now at least we won't have a player arbitrarily deciding to sit out games for fake injuries and fake rest. I'm actually pretty amazed that a Wolves player ever managed to top the disgusting crap Stephon Marbury pulled almost 20 years ago, but the Butler did it. Now Fire Thibs and lets fully move on from this failed experiment.

I have been threatened by 2 of these Twitter lunatics that they are going to call the police on me. For READING tweets. For reading PUBLIC tweets. It's not like I hacked an account or something. If you call the cops please record the call, cause I would love to hear them laugh their asses off. You have NOTHING. You don't like having tweets.deleted or accounts suspended? Take it up with twitter, like I had to do after YOU PEOPLE stalked MY tweets and did the EXACT SAME SHIT, cause you retards DO understand *I* do not have the power to do any of that?

-I don't wear glasses -I don't use a desktop -I would never allow my remaining hair to get so ungainly long and messy. -I haven't had acne since I was like 15 -My posture is WAY better -This fellow looks to be at least 75-100 pounds beefier than me. 

When people who, in some cases, spent YEARS attacking me on twitter, and bragged about getting me reported and then banned, turn around and act all indignant about me giving them a taste of their own medicine....oh please bathe me in your tears. Don't lie and accuse me of having sent you a death threat that I never sent, cause I had never even interacted with you ONCE at that point. I have a fucking looooooong memory. Oh what, you think I forgot? 😂 I have about as much sympathy for you assholes as I do for any other Nazis. And seriously, it takes maybe 10 minutes max out of my day to scroll around on there a little bit and report shit. Meanwhile you circle jerk fucknuts have stalked this blog since day one. Get a fucking clue, clowns!

Not quite as satisfying as getting that lunatic Jess Aryan Nation suspended, but that's coming 😁

Well that all turned out pretty solid after all. Around 7 or so it was looking like catastrophe. That was about the same time of night 2 years ago that that horror began to really take shape.  No....it can't be happening again. It didn't. We got the house back. We won a whole bunch of big governorships(Kansas gettin all blue!). The senate didn't work out, but that was always a long shot this year, and Beto nearly winning in crappy ass Texas sets him up for big things. Florida screwed us as usual(time to just give up on that state). And Minnesota, after coming a whole lot closer to turning red in 2016 than I could stomach, swung overwhelmingly back to blue. I am SO glad that the insane barrage of negative ads against Dean Phillips failed. I am very relieved that the unjust ousting of Al Franken didn't cost us. Nothing at all against Tina Smith, but that could have been a disaster. The smear campaigns against Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar failed. A lot of other places i...

DEMS HOUSE! Democracy's hand bursts out of the ground just in time!

Seriously! How is that fucking limp dick shaped state always the one that's fucking us????

It's election eve, which has never before been a day I even really noticed. Election DAY, sure. But this is the 1st time that an election is quite simply going to mean the difference between the first chance we have had to roll back the disaster of two years ago, and what will be the moment that ends any semblance of democracy in this country. If the Republicans keep control of Congress tomorrow, it's over. Finished. Done. There will be no more elections, at least not ones that aren't there just for show. The Kavanaugh court can officially start its systematic teardown of every rights we have. Voter suppression will only get worse. More tax cuts for the billionaires will be passed, and this time the GOP demons will combine it with the gutting of social security and Medicare. There will quite literally be nothing left to stop them short of an all out civil war. I gotta say, I'm not at all confident. Oh sure, the polls are favorable. The early voting numbers are off the...

Vikings 24 Lions 9 The Vikings finally reached their bye. After 9 weeks filled with crazy kicker drama, a meltdown by one of their stars, a slew of major injuries on both sides of the ball, and a lot of bad luck at times, the team sits at 5-3-1, and even now sit in one of the NFC's 6 playoff spots. The last hurdle was their pesky nemesis the Lions. The Lions who have handed us some of our most crushing defeats in recent years. The Lions who came in 2-0 at the purple palace. Games against them are like pulling teeth. But the dominant, dynamic Vikings defense showed up today with gusto. They turned a pretty solid QB in Matthew Stafford into a deer in headlights. They completely controlled this game. 10 sacks, something even the Purple People Eaters never did(although the NFL didn't officially track sacks for some of that era, so maybe they did). Once again the Vikings offense came right out and scored, with a nice mix of run and pass, and a nice mix of targets(Chad Beebe was...

In fact there are 2 dreadful post-KG seasons where I was a season ticket holder to prove that I'm not, BUT.... The last 3 Wolves games I've attended now: 1. KAT sets Wolves franchise record for points in a game. 2. Only playoff game they've won since 2004. 3. Derrick Rose drops 50 on Utah.

Maybe it's just the stuff I've been exposed to since the Vikings loss to the Saints, but it appears to me that the media both on a national level as well as locally, has chosen that game as their final excuse to unleash the hounds on Kirk Cousins, and to a lesser extent Mike Zimmer. The Zimmer stuff is not entirely new. Patrick Reusse wrote a very personal hit piece on him following the 2016 collapse, and plenty of others have taken their shots. It seems no approach with the media will appease said media. If a coach is dull, they rip him for being dull. But if Zimmer gets a little prickly with them, then they get totally outraged. It's always the wrong thing to say, or the wrong tone to take. Zimmer is in year 5 here, and he's had a lot of success. He's a damn good coach, but the media seems to be turning on him. Kirk Cousins is 8 games into year 1, and that turn is already beginning. There are certain media members who were trashing Cousins seemingly from the mom...

Saints 30 Vikings 20 This SNF affair was hyped up as the rematch of last year's playoff game...but it would up being a sort of spiritual sequel to the 2009 NFC Championship Game. Once again we saw a Vikings team play an even game against an arguably superior Saints team, only to lose by repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with devastating mistakes. I thought this would be a loss, given how shorthanded the Vikings were. But it was a win if you flip just two plays. The Adam Thielen fumble was one of the most abrupt, violent momentum swings I can recall. We are driving right down the field again, about to go up 20-10, and would get the ball to start the 3rd quarter. And Adam puts the ball on the ground. It just cannot happen. That mistake, coupled with the long return and the Laquon helmet toss, giftwrapped a Saints TD from which the Vikings never really recovered. Just like everyone in purple kept fumbling in that title game And then Stefon Diggs inexplicably just stops r...

The new Halloween movie has really been built up by the filmmakers and a lot of fans as the 1st REAL sequel. This movie retroactively removes every single sequel or reboot as canon. So you would think that with that build up this film must really be good. It's not. It's actually kind of terrible. It's already made a bucket of money, and will surely lead to a whole new batch of sequels, but it's not good. The film has no personality. It's weird. You'd think that with David Gordon Green directing and with Danny McBride as one of the writers, you'd expect this film to stand out. But mostly it's content to just trace the outlines of previous films. It's basically a more serious version of H20, only with Jamie Lee Curtis's family tree a little altered. Halloween H40 is basically just a mediocre slasher movie that wallows in all the worst tropes of the genre. It has no characters aside from Curtis who hold your interest at all. It's not scary, o...

I'm not sure if he will be a good manager or not. I caught some of his press conference today and he seems pretty sharp, and player friendly. I'm just amazed that my ballclub now has a manager who is younger than me. I'm so old. 😦

Can you even IMAGINE if Bush had said the day after 9/11 that the attacks were the fault of the victims themselves? Cause that is what this reprehensible motherfucker did here. These bombs(which are still coming) make for the largest terrorist attack in scope in this country since 9/11. Oh, they don't count cause only liberals were targeted? Fuck off. We are under attack in this country. We are under attack by our supposed leader, a man who endorsed and encouraged these attacks. A man who behind closed doors is delighted that this is happening. A man whose only regret is that the targets of these attacks were not successfully killed. A man who gives the usual fake canned teleprompter condemnation that nobody with a brain buys. A man who then makes it very clear, yet again, that the VICTIMS of right wing crimes have only themselves to blame. HE IS OUR ENEMY. DONALD TRUMP IS THE BIGGEST DOMESTIC TERRORIST THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. Oh, you say "he can't be a terro...

As if there could have been any other result from a deranged president and an evil right wing media spending day after day, year after year demonizing every single prominent figure on the left, and calling the press the enemy of the people, and promoting violence against journalists here and abroad. This will not stop. The lion has been released from the cage. The right wing lunatics have been given free reign to run rampant across this country. And we're supposed to feel guilty that Mitch Mcconnell or the.pig woman got yelled at at a restaurant? They're already screaming "false flag" because of course they are. But it's very real. This is the new standard operating procedure for the right wing in this country. They are violent. They are hateful. They are deeply stupid, thus easily led by a madman like Trump. They are hypocrites to their core, so they see no contradiction in calling poor Mexicans terrorists while they themselves start fights with pea...

Great, surprising news to have Everson Griffen back with the Vikings. I wasn't sure if we would see him again this season. And it comes at a great time, cause we need him badly this week. I'm not sure the Vikings can win this week if they're really shorthanded.